TENCATE ADVANCED ARMOR AT AUSA 2017 - STAND 2161

TENCATE ADVANCED ARMOR IS LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING WARFIGHTERS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS AT AUSA 2017

TenCate Advanced Armor will join the 2017 edition of the AUSA with its sister company, TenCate Protective Fabrics, at stand 2161. AUSA provides an immensely important forum for TenCate Advanced Armor to showcase the progress of the business and celebrate old and new relations.

For this year, TenCate Advanced Armor will emphasize its contribution to the GD OTS Flyer 60 with the development of a lightweight survivability suite for the vehicle. Learn more about the FLyer 60 and TenCate Advanced Armor's contribution at stand 2161.

WORLD CLASS PROTECTION FOR THE GROUND MOBILITY VEHICLE (GMV)

AMERICAN MADE PROTECTION FOR THE WARFIGHTER

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) is the prime contractor for the US Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 (GMV 1.1) program where TenCate Advanced Armor will function as the survivability partner. For TenCate Advanced Armor, the program is a milestone demonstrating capabilities to provide detailed design, development, integration, and manufacturing services to global tier-one defense companies.

TenCate advanced Armor's involvement in the GMV 1.1 program started in early 2014 with the opportunity to offer itself as a full survivability sub-system partner to GD-OTS for the GMV 1.1 program. TenCate Advanced Armor Design (TCAAD) would provide survivability analysis and designed a survivability solution that would facilitate the Flyer's nimble characteristics while at the same time providing the needed protection for the warfighter. TenCate Advanced Armor USA, based in Ohio, would manufacture and integrate the complete survivability solution.

The complete program is highly complex and has required TenCate Advanced Armor USA to make significant changes to its view on operations and its production facilities. From being a commodity supplier manufacturing high quantities of armor components, TenCate Advanced Armor USA has developed the capability to be a strategic partner for survivability solutions by manufacturing and integrating complex survivability systems composed of hundreds of parts.

Due to the complexity of the survivability system, TenCate Advanced Armor USA also developed an AS9100 compliant management system. This has allowed TenCate to provide a higher level of service to our customers. The development and implementation of an AS9100 compliant management system demonstrates the commitment of TenCate Advanced Armor USA to be a leading facility in the manufacture of survivability systems as more improvements are planned.

The GMV is a large multi-year program with numerous kits to be delivered in 2017 to meet the request from U.S. Army. More kits will be supplied through 2018 and onwards to meet the goal of providing survivability upgrades to a SOF-unique vehicle to fill a shortfall in mobility over rough terrain. The number of kits to be supplied means that TenCate Advanced Armor can optimize production to ensure that warfighters have the protection they require.

SURVIVABILITY ENGINEERING

TenCate Advanced Armor Design: a survivability engineering provider

TenCate Advanced Armor Design, Inc. (TCAAD), located in Goleta, California, is a survivability systems engineering services provider with deep roots in Military vehicle platforms and a design specialty in underbody blast mitigation. Their mission is to provide low-risk professional engineering services and product design support while building a reputation for delivering programs that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations.

This is successfully accomplished via a customized program management approach leveraging over 125 years of DOD programming and engineering experience. As a fully integrated package, this method allows TenCate Advanced Armor Design to anticipate and address risk as well as identify derived requirements, maintain Department of Defense customer expectations and keep programs tracking against deliverables, budgets and schedules.

This system, which includes numerous dynamic, conditional and environmental elements as well as transparent armor and molded armor design features is both lightweight and high-performance in order to best meet exacting payload, mobility and performance demands of the SOCOM customer

Utilizing in-house resources, TCAAD was able to quickly model and evaluate the still evolving FLYER platform in the virtual world and designed a range of threat protection solutions to address customer requirements. Collaborative identification and down-selection of the best value proposition followed and in turn generated prototype systems to validate fit-up, execute ballistic testing and to perform drive-around trials. Customer approved refinements yielded a level III technical drawing package (TDP) which was immediately put into service to build production units.

TCAAD has the internal capability to evaluate a platform for ballistic and blast threat protection, to design effective and efficient armor solutions, to prototype and test those solutions and to deliver those solutions as manufacture-ready production drawings. In effect, TenCate Advanced Armor Design in Goleta, CA, is essentially a flexible, on-demand extension of an OEM’s own internal engineering resources.

Visit GD OTS at AUSA at booth no. 815 to see the Flyer and learn why lightweight integrated protection is key to its mission objectives or visit TenCate Advanced Armor Design at the TenCate booth no. 2161.

TENCATE ADVANCED ARMOUR AT PACIFIC 2017 - STAND 2N17

TENCATE ADVANCED ARMOUR visits australia for PACIFIC 2017

TenCate Advanced Armour APAC will be ready to welcome partners and end-users when Pacific 2017 opens the doors on October 3rd. With its special emphasis on naval and marine applications, Pacific 2017 provides the perfect forum to showcase TenCate Advanced Armour's capabilities in survivability solutions for naval platforms ranging over Frigates, OPVs, littoral combat ships, and patrol crafts.

Visit TenCate Advanced Armour at stand 2N17 for a discussion over naval and land system survivability.

PACIFIC 2017

RADOME PROTECTION

Towers

Bridge & Command

Gun & Assets

NAVAL SHIELD

hangar & decks

radome protection

retaining situational awareness

TenCate Advanced Armour has developed a special protection application for radomes. By working with material suppliers and tapping into TenCate Advanced Armour's capabilities in material application, a new radar-transparent protection solution has been developed.

The radar-transparent protection solution provides protection against small arms fire and has little to none influence on radar performance.

Towers

Protection of towers and exposed areas

TenCate Advanced Armour can provide a lightweight and modular protection solution for ship towers and other exposed areas onboard. The protection solution is lightweight to ensure that vessel maneuverability impact is minimal, and modular to provide deployed vessels with a capability to repair and retain operability with little stock.

Bridge & Command

Protecting bridge and command installations

Lightweight modular panels with fire-retardant capabilities can be installed on bridge, engine room, and command installations. The panels mitigate blast and decrease fragmentation from penetrating threats.

The protection will increase the protection of the vessel's vital areas and ensure that operability is retained.

With a wide experience in material application, TenCate Advanced Armour can shape panels to comply with customer requirements and provide the best protection for guns and assets achievable.

NAVAl shield

Tencate tactival naval shield

TenCate Tactical Naval Shield is an easily deployable protected weapon station. It is composed of a central console and four additional side panels. The protected weapon station can be assembled in less than three minutes by two personnel.

TenCate Tactical Naval Shield can be supplied in different protection levels to comply with customer requirements. The panels are treated with a coating to resist the salty marine environment.

Hangar & decks

Protecting valuable cargo

TenCate Advanced Armour can develop protection solutions for the hangar, decks, and cargo bay for naval vessels. Protection of hangars and decks are necessary to safeguard helicopters or other valuable and mission-critical equipment.

TenCate Advanced Armour solutions for deck and hangar are lightweight, modular, and fire-retardant.

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AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR TENCATE

TeTenCate Advanced Armour is an experienced survivability partner for Australian industry for large-scale defence projects

TENCATE ADVANCED ARMOUR IS A POTENTIAL PARTNER FOR LAND 400, SEA 1180, AND SEA 5000

TenCate Advanced Armour is an experienced provider of survivability solutions to the Australian DoD and Australian industry with references in land system survivability, aircraft protection, and personal protection. Built on the back of earlier programmes, TenCate Advanced Armour has developed the expertise to work with local content in Australia and established an intimate relationship with numerous local Australian partners. Because of this, TenCate Advanced Armour is positioned to support Australian Industry Capability (AIC) on LAND 400 Phase 2 and Phase 3, as well as SEA 1180 and SEA 5000.

TenCate Advanced Armour can offer a low risk solution and business model for cooperation on all major programmes for Australia, as TenCate Advanced Armour already is a preferred supplier for many of the European OEMs that are competing on the LAND 400 Phase 2 and Phase 3, SEA 1180 and SEA 5000 programmes. TenCate Advanced Armour's collaboration with the OEMs is ongoing and for existing and new programmes which means that TenCate Advanced Armour can provide the protection solutions Military Off The Shelf (MOTS) to bring down risk even further for Australian partners.

TenCate Advanced Armour also holds a variety of survivability solutions in its portfolio that are immediately applicable for the Australian programmes, incl. the TenCate Tactical Naval Shield which is especially relevant for the SEA 1180 and SEA 5000 programmes. The TenCate Tactical Naval Shield, which is a deployable protected weapon station, can be supplied and integrated on naval vessels on short notice and the development can include local content as necessary.

Meet TenCate Advanced Armour at Pacific 2017, stand 2N17, to discuss the possibilities of cooperation on Australian and Asian-Pacific programmes. TenCate Advanced Armour APAC is a Singapore-based sales and project office with numerous contacts spread across the Pacific Rim

COMBAT HELICOPTER 2017

TenCate Advanced Armour once again attends the Combat Helicopter conference held in Krakow, Poland on 17-19th October. The conference brings together numerous military decision makers and industry partners, and TenCate Advanced Armour will attend to discuss survivability with end-users.

TenCate Advanced Armour is working with leading OEMs as a survivability partner, developing, manufacturing, and supporting survivability solutions for military helicopters. TenCate Advanced Armour can also work directly with operators to bring up to speed the survivability solutions by retro-fitting a new suite. TenCate Advanced Armour has done this with numerous operators and can rapidly develop and supply solutions for the most recurring platforms.

TENCATE ADVANCED ARMOUR EXHIBITS AT MILIPOL 2017

Every second year, Paris hosts one of the world's leading personal protection shows. As a long time participant in Milipol, TenCate Advanced Armour will be present with a stand shared with TenCate Protective Fabrics. Milipol 2017 will take place at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre from the 21-24 November.

Milipol is an important forum for personal protection with a long tradition of bringing together leading partners and end-users. The last edition of Milipol was held amidst the tradegy that hit Paris shedding light on the importance of protecting law enforcement and special forces.

Meet TenCate Advanced Armour at Milipol on stand 6 E 200 and learn why TenCate Advanced Armour is the preferred supplier of personal protection equipment for the world's leading special forces, militaries, and law enforcement units.

MILIPOL 2017

TENCATE TARGA-LIGHT

A protection you can trust

TENCAte targa-light ballistic shields

As special forces and law enforcement are exposed to increasing threats from the proliferation of assault weapons, their protective gear must be optimised to allow them to operate safely. TenCate Advanced Armour is aware of the threats against special forces and law enforcement and have developed a line of shields to withstand those threats and protect the officers.

In order to increase the protection for exposed officers, TenCate Advanced Armour works with special forces and law enforcement to take their experiences and facilitate it making ballistic shields that complies with official requirements and the requirements of day to day use.

The result is the TenCate Targa-lightTM. The line composes four different shapes of high-performance shields. Standard size rectangular shields, lightweight ergonomic shields, double shields on trolleys and the side protecting Ramses shield.

Each type of shield has been developed for a specific purpose based on dialogue with end-users, and TenCate Advanced Armour is continuing that dialogue with more and more end-users to ensure that TenCate Targa-LightTM shields offer the protection special forces and law enforcement need and expect. TenCate Targa-light is the protection you can trust.

Visit stand 6 E 200 at Milipol to see the latest development in lightweight ballistic shields for special forces and meet our dedicated personal protection team.

THE WORLD'S BEST SHIELDS

high-performance shields

TenCate Targa-LightTM shields offer protection in accordance with the NIJ standard to protection level III and IV. TenCate Advanced Armour also has a portfolio of ballistic shields certified in accordance with the VPAM standard.

All shields go through rigorous internal and external testing to ensure they exceed or comply with requirements. The testing is necessary to ensure that all special forces operating with a TenCate Targa-LightTM shield have the protection they require.

A testament to TenCate Targa-LightTM shields' high standards is their ability to absorb numerous attacks without losing their anti-ballistic capability.

LIGHTWEIGHT materials

A key parameter to optimize the operability of the TenCate Targa-LightTM shields is the weight. TenCate Advanced Armour works directly with material suppliers to enable lightweight materials to be applied in anti-ballistic capabilities. Through TenCate Advanced Armour's R&D department, various fibre materials are qualified for anti-ballistic applications and combined with ceramics to even withstand armor piercing ammunition.

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT

TenCate Advanced Armour also works with sub-suppliers to integrate and make available a wide range of complementary equipment including LED lights, D/N/IR cameras and screens, and periscopes.